This paper examines the satirical songs of the blogger “Ded Archimed” within the tradition of Russian protest music and civic journalism. His YouTube performances combine humour, grotesque, folk-speech stylisation and intertextual references to Soviet culture to criticise propaganda, militarisation and social degradation. The study analyses 40 texts created between February 2022 and April 2025 from a wider corpus of 427 recordings. Special attention is given to the reinterpretation of “war,” “peace,” and “victory,” showing how humour functions as a strategy of ethical resistance and an alternative counter-discourse to official rhetoric.
Online humour in the Russian protest songs of the last decade: linguistic aspects
Tatiana Anatolievna Ostakhova
2025-01-01
Abstract
This paper examines the satirical songs of the blogger “Ded Archimed” within the tradition of Russian protest music and civic journalism. His YouTube performances combine humour, grotesque, folk-speech stylisation and intertextual references to Soviet culture to criticise propaganda, militarisation and social degradation. The study analyses 40 texts created between February 2022 and April 2025 from a wider corpus of 427 recordings. Special attention is given to the reinterpretation of “war,” “peace,” and “victory,” showing how humour functions as a strategy of ethical resistance and an alternative counter-discourse to official rhetoric.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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